IT programming books related reviews
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 5/5
Title: Oracle8i Advanced PL/SQL Programming
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
Authors: Scott Urman
Rating: 5/5
Simaply the best reference book for Oracle PL/SQL, I highly recomment this book to new users. Over all this is nice book to read and i recommend this to all my collegues and friends. Paper quality is Good and examples could have been better in terms of more elaboration as this is a new Oracle technologies book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 1/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 1/5
I couldn't get many of the example routines in this book to work on MSSQL 7 or the MSSQL 2000 beta. It is really disappointing. I wrote the authors, but got no response. I know some of the problems are because the code targets old versions of the server. To me, this is not right because 7 has been released for along time now.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 2/5
Title: Programming PHP
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
Rating: 2/5
This book is really hard to understand for beginners. Topics jump all over places. It's so unorganized to follow. Trust Me this book is not for beginners.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Development Using SQL-DMO, SQL-NS & DTS
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Frank Miller, Rachelle Reese, Martin Harwar
Rating: 3/5
Title: Professional SQL Server 7.0 Development Using SQL-DMO, SQL-NS & DTS
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Frank Miller, Rachelle Reese, Martin Harwar
Rating: 3/5
I found this book to be a big help in creating SQL DMO applications. I got some ideas for incorporating server and application roles via DMO, automating free log space counting and archiving via detach and attach, a way to limit extending the server's context for xp_cmdshell and ways to produce lists for users that are absent from EM (it may be simple, but there *is* no list of triggers for example, and the DMO EnumXXXX methods are a lot easier to deal with than ado's moreresults, when queries return more than one result set). I am a vfp programmer, but in manipulating an object model, the ideosynchrosies of the language aren't supposed to count for much, so I found it straightforward to translate the vb into vfp, and found my way.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Instant SQL Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 3/5
Title: Instant SQL Programming
Publisher: Wrox Press
Authors: Joe Celko
Rating: 3/5
The publisher of this book calls its line of books "Programmer to Programmer." This book is a good introduction to SQL, written for programmers. There is a strong emphasis on theory: of databases, of SQL, and of how to use SQL. Theory is presented before syntax, which was very helpful for me. The book's emphasis on theory, and the fact that it was written for programmers, are what make this book unique.At times the flow of topics is a little confusing, and the book often reads like it was proofread by someone not well-versed in American English. However, the overall presentation of SQL and database concepts far outweighs the book's sometimes mediocre readability.I would not recommend this book to the non-programmer, but I highly recommend it to the intelligent programmer who wants to understand SQL and be a high-quality database programmer.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 4/5
Title: PHP for the World Wide Web : Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) (Visual Quickstart Guides)
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Authors: Larry Ullman
Rating: 4/5
I decided to get myself into some coding and wanted a 'teach myself' style book to guide me along and this has done just that.
If you need to start somewhere I'd recommend starting with this as it made everything very clear and straightforward for me.
If I had anything bad to say it would be that the references to diagrams and their content can go a tad awry but it's easy to see what's meant.
All in all, I'm very pleased I bought the book.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Oracle Web Applications: Pl/Sql Developer's Introduction
Publisher:
Authors: Andrew Odewahn
Rating: 4/5
Title: Oracle Web Applications: Pl/Sql Developer's Introduction
Publisher:
Authors: Andrew Odewahn
Rating: 4/5
The title suggests this book is an Introduction to web applications. As an Oracle contractor who knew little about the web, I found it very helpful in that it explained clearly and concisely some of the approaches that the Oracle Corp is taking to web development. For me, it was useful to have a summary of HTML and XML. Well worth a read.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Ron Soukup
Rating: 5/5
Title: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (Microsoft Programming Series)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Ron Soukup
Rating: 5/5
I bought this book based on the good reviews it received here,but I was severely disapointed. Soukup claims that installingSQLServer is easy. "I'm proud to say that even a novice can comfortably install SQLServer in less than 10 minutes", he writes in the book. But nothing could be further from the truth. I've installed databases on UNIX (Linux and SolarisX86) and personal Oracle for Win95, without any problems, but SQLServer stubbornly refused to install on my WinNT 4 Server. In spite of numerous problem reports Soukup doesn't even mention that you might not be able to install SQLServer on your machine, let alone give you any guidance about what to do if you do have problems. In addition to these problems I found that the rest of the book is bloated with advocacy and fluff. I've worked with one SQLServer installation that crashed several times a day. Yet there is no entry for "reliability" in the index. Soukup was general manager for SQLServer and this book appears to be an advocacy job instead of an attempt to address the problems that people have encountered with his "child". Interestingly, he notes the frustrations that some customers have had with SQLServer, but apparently feels no obligation to try and provide fixes or a work around for them. This will be the first book that I've been forced to return for a refund in a long time. And it definitely does not deserve the good reviews it has received.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 5/5
Title: Transact-SQL Programming
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors: Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky, Kevin Kline
Rating: 5/5
I don't understand why so many of the other reviewers focused on the SQL 7 and Style issues when reviewing this book. After having surveyed the market place, I think I can say that there is no better book on the subject in print anywhere. If you were captive in a vault with a workstation connected to a SQL Server and had to program your way out, this would be the book you would want to have with you.If you know what is in this book, you are a heavy hitter when it comes to SQL Server(MS or Sybase). There are some nuances of the changes brought by MS version 7 that are uncovered, but you will be able to deal with them by reading the "What's New" section, and what's more you will be able to understand them.Secondly, those who complain about the style of writing in this book are nuts. What are they looking for? Love interest? The movie rights? This book is both a text, i.e. it teaches how to use the language, and a reference that you will go back to time and again to refresh your memory on point of grammar. To demonstrate how useful I think this book is, I have just spent 30 minutes writing and attaching 3M index tabs to my copy, the better to retrieve information with faster.
Product: Book Paperback
Title: McSe Readiness Review Exam 70-029: Designing and Implementing Databases With Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (Mcse Readiness Review)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Robert Sheldon
Rating: 4/5
Title: McSe Readiness Review Exam 70-029: Designing and Implementing Databases With Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (Mcse Readiness Review)
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Authors: Robert Sheldon
Rating: 4/5
This book as any other Microsoft book or guide, is interesting enough just because it teaches you to "think" the Microsoft way, which is what you need when taking a Microsoft test.Other reviewers point out that it is too easy or that questions included are not elaborate enough to be good test preparation, but I have to disagree for two reasons:1) Every easy question sets up another more complicated or hard one, and makes the later one make a bit more sense, hence it TEACHES you. 2) It does a great job at laying the ground for good solid knowledge of the basics.Yes, there are many questions that seem easy, but the explanations included for each question makes the book worth the price. The CD with a test engine with a pool of 60 questions alone is worth $30 online anywhere!!!Together with hands-on practice, and other books and/or training guides, this book makes a resource that is hard to ignore when preparing for the test.Please do not compare with Transcenders, that is a totally different monster that costs over $150. Take this readiness guide for what it is and don't expect to become a DBA overnight just using this book. No one resource is ever enough.Guillermo Salas MCSE, MCDBA, CNA
